AbstractThe paper begins with a welfare-theoretic proposition: Systems competition is likely to weaken the territorially limited power of the state vis-à-vis internationally mobile capital, firms and consumers. Even if these changes should unambiguously benefit consumer interests, interests...

AbstractTax competition poses two problems for international cooperation: defection and distributive conflict. Multilateral cooperation to stop tax competition may fail because states face incentives to renege on their promises or because they face adverse distributional consequences, either of...

Abstract AbstractThis paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for over fifty years with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The...